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May Happenings

Thank you so much for supporting your student during STAAR season. We are so proud of them! We look forward to seeing all of their products they made for May Market Day on May 9th. Parents are welcome to come shop from 11 to 11:30. "In reading & writing, students will end the year in our Research unit. The students will generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry, develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance, identify and gather relevant information from a variety of source, identify primary and secondary sources, demonstrate understanding of information gathered, recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials, create a works cited page, and use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

A Peek at Our Monthly Curriculum

Reading

In reading & writing, students will end the year in our Research unit. The students will generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry, develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance, identify and gather relevant information from a variety of source, identify primary and secondary sources, demonstrate understanding of information gathered, recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials, create a works cited page, and use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

Writing/Phonics

In reading & writing, students will end the year in our Research unit. The students will generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry, develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance, identify and gather relevant information from a variety of source, identify primary and secondary sources, demonstrate understanding of information gathered, recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials, create a works cited page, and use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

Math

In math, we will be continuing our Personal Financial Literacy Unit and the students will explain the connection between human capital/labor and income, describe the relationship between the availability or scarcity of resources and how that impacts cost, identify the costs and benefits of planned and unplanned spending decisions, explain that credit is used when wants or needs exceed the ability to pay and that it is the borrower's responsibility to pay it back to the lender, usually with interest, list reasons to save and explain the benefit of a savings plan, including for college, and identify decisions involving income, spending, saving, credit, and charitable giving.

Science

In Science, we will describe how natural changes to the environment such as floods and droughts cause some organisms to thrive and others to perish or move to new locations, identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field affect the ecosystem, and identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and environments, including common Texas fossils.

Social Studies

In social studies, we will be starting a research project where students will each be researching one of the various citizens we have learned about throughout the year. They will gather information, including historical and current events and geographic data, about the community using a variety of resources.

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